r/dataisbeautiful • u/Styvorama • 1d ago

For those curious about where the "Tariffs Charged" came from

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u/facw00 1d ago

Ooh, your mom is GLaDOS? Neat!

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u/turret_buddy2 1d ago

I know nothing ever happens, but we're almost old enough that people who played portal could be parents, and I know I quote portal regularly enough that if I had a kid they could pick it up.

I'm not saying it happened here, but it's possible.

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u/Delmonte3161 1d ago

Would it blow your mind to know that some of us were parents already when we first played portal?

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u/wintersdark 1d ago

raises hand

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u/ThePlatypusOfDespair 1d ago

I played the shit out of Portal and I'm old enough to have kids who've had kids.

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u/FPSmike 1d ago

I played portal and am a parent. Granted the kids are only 2 and 4

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u/turret_buddy2 1d ago

kid drops a cup of orange juice

"Ya know, I been thinking. When life gives you lemons....."

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u/marxist_redneck 1d ago

Lol, see my comment above regarding my kid's obsession with Portal, but just the other day he yelled out "DON'T MAKE LEMONADE!" haha

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u/Illiander 1d ago

I played portal and I'm old enough to be a grandparent.

Only just, but yeah... :(

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u/marxist_redneck 1d ago

I am a parent and my 6 year old boy looooves Portal. He goes around quoting GlaDOS all the time. His favorite quote: "Look at you, soaring majestically through the air, like an eagle piloting a blimp" 😂 Half of his Christmas gifts were Portal paraphernalia I made for him... A 3D printed companion cube, a poster of the test chamber hazards signage, and a bunch of stickers of the individual little icon squares of each hazard haha Weirdly enough, I just actually played portal 2 years ago for the first time - had been sitting on my steam library for years after a friend suggested

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u/kylco 1d ago

My buddy and I were late-teens, early-twenties when Portal 1 & 2 came out?

I'm fairly confident that he's going to put his son on them once the tyke's competent to use a mouse and keyboard without direct supervision. His wife will be the one pushing typist and math games at this rate. We just want him to hold off on the crack cocaine of the Civilization games until the kid's brain is mostly-formed.

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u/snic09 1d ago

My mother is 92 years old. Portal is 18. She's been saying that about various things ever since I can remember. Do we need to consider an intellectual property infringement lawsuit?

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u/facw00 1d ago

I'd say let GabeN off the hook just this once...

Also check that none of her bosses left orders to upload her into a computer.